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The slowburn, enemies to lovers relationship will leave you at the edge of your seat! The tension is IMMACULATE!
The magic is so intriguing and I love the use of (mild) body horror. Plant-like body horror is one of my favorite ways to present body horror in books.
This book has some complex and well thought out political intrigue.
The female characters in this book are beyond BADASS (and I have a weak spot for Bhumika)
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what are your favorite sapphic books? (other than harrow the ninth)
Hi bestie!! here are a couple of my favourites
adult:
the priory of the orange tree - fantasy - bisexual queen x lesbian mage who struggle to carve their own path in societies and cultures that demand conformity. meanwhile there's an evil dragon starting to wake which wants to destroy the world. there's also a contagious disease that magically corrupts people who come in contact with it in case you want to avoid it. it explores how mythologies get skewed over time and is pretty fast paced even if it's ~800~ pages long
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - romance - it essentially chronicles evelyn's life as an actress and her romances over the decades and her secret relationship with another actress. the characters are really complex and flawed which appealed to me a lot
gideon the ninth - horror + sci fi - I know you said not harrow the ninth but. lesbian necromancers in space is an overdone description but it's essentially that. candidates are summoned from each of the nine houses so that they can piece together a secret that'll enable them to become lyctors and serve the god-emperor. everyone's very gay. the writing style might require some patience on your part though
the traitor baru cormorant - fantasy - the poppy war if it was sapphic. check the content warnings before you get into it because it deals with colonialism, how it suffocates and destroys indigenous cultures, and features lots of economics, battle sequences and characters who're so morally grey that you're literally not going to have any idea about whose side they're on. this book will wreck you
this is how you lose the time war - sci fi - two assassins belonging to opposite sides of a war spending most of the book homoerotically thwarting each other
the luminous dead - horror + sci fi - this is your go to for toxic sapphic relationships. the protagonist descends into a cave system to find something for her employer but stuff starts going wrong soon - supplies go missing and she starts to think the cave system might be haunted. not recommended if you're claustrophobic
the long way to a small angry planet - sci fi - the sapphic relationship is not very prominent but the book is very queer and you'll like it a lot if you're looking for found families in space
a memory called empire - sci fi - the protagonist steps up as ambassador to the empire when her predecessor dies. she suspects that he was killed and tries to uncover the mysterious circumstances behind his death. it explores themes of alienation from the home and your culture and the love that one harbors for a culture that devours your own anyway as much as you hate it.
the empress of salt and fortune - fantasy - the second book is actually the sapphic one but this one also chronicles the life of an empress who was involved in a relationship with her servant. the protagonist is non binary!
she who became the sun - historical fantasy - kind of like the poppy war again. the protagonist is genderqueer and it chronicles her rise to the throne. the book’s based on historical events which are retold through a queer lens. lots of books punish their protagonists for being selfish but this book said fuck you to all of them and rewarded its characters for choosing their desires.
her body and other parties - short story collection - a couple of them are sapphic
the jasmine throne - fantasy - princess x bodyguard. it has major priory vibes in the sense that the princess struggles to deliver on what the society demands of her and the bodyguard secretly practices magic
nevernight - fantasy - it's jay kristoff and I'd usually not recommend him but I like ashlinn jarnheim so I'll make an exception for her :/
young adult:
queen of coin and whispers - fantasy/romance - I thought the first half of the book was very good as opposed to the second half and it did have its issues but it's generally a fun read if you're bored - it's another queen x sworn protector relationship
wilder girls - horror - girls on an island develop strange mutations and try to survive as best as the can as they hope for a cure from the government. the protagonist is vicious in her pursuit to achieve what she wants and I love that.
the language of thorns - fantasy - grishaverse short story collection! when water sang fire + little knife are sapphic
girls of paper and fire - fantasy - it could've featured a better progression from the sort of enemies to lovers part but it was otherwise nice. I heard that the second book was bad so I abandoned the series with the first book.
crier's war - fantasy - I abandoned this because the writing wasn't very good but everyone sings it praises so you might want to try it
-this is how you lose the time war // Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
-the city in the middle of the night // Charlie Jane Anders
-upright women wanted // Sarah Gailey (nblw rep!)
fantasy:
-palimpsest // Catherynne Valente
-the unbroken // C.L. Clark (maybe it’s not fair to recommend this since i’m only a chapter into it, but i am SO excited for this book and i already love it)
-magic for liars // Sarah Gailey
-the priory of the orange tree // Samantha Shannon
-the jasmine throne // Tasha Suri
-she who became the sun // Shelley Parker-Chan
-the chosen and the beautiful // Nghi Vo
-the city we became // N.K. Jemisin
books that incorporate both sci-fi & fantasy elements (or alternately, books about sword lesbians raised in death cults):
How to absolutely wreck your audience with a character death:
Let the character have plenty of screen time before the death. Show us their motivations, dreams, and inner world, so we really connect with them.
Kill them towards the latter half of the middle of your story, instead of the end, so we get to see the proper grief and how the death has affected the other characters.
Kill them off while their at their highest, or when things are just starting to look up for them.
Alternatively, kill them in the middle of their character arc, as they’re about to change for better.
For the actual death themselves, killing via betrayal from something they trusted- be it equipment failure, or a person, or killing them of something that could’ve been easily preventable, often hit the hardest.
Show other characters grief over them. Show how they’ve been absolutely wrecked over the loss of this character.
Continue to show sides of the character even after death. Have other characters find out information about them that makes the audience wish they could explore the dead character further.
Let the dead character have an ambition/goal/dream they were super passionate about that they never got to complete.
Cause an argument/conflict between the dead character and another character right before the character dies.
Have the remaining cast face challenges that could’ve been easily resolved if the dead character was there.
Kill main cast characters sparingly. A few meaningful character deaths are a lot more tear jerking than a blood bath.
If you want to be really, really cruel, and your writing in a point of view that would allow you to do this, reveal important information about the death to the audience, but not to the characters.
If your writing in a genre were it would be possible, consider having the dead character know that they’re going to die, but not revealing it to the others.
Have their death be in vain to the main goal. Instead of a heroic sacrifice, it was a cruel casualty.
me: *turns on the kettle* *makes myself a snack* *takes a shower and wears comfy clothes* *scrolls through spotify trying to find the right music* *makes tea* *opens laptop* *pulls up unfinished doc* *stares at word doc for five minutes*
me: okay i think that's enough writing for today :) *closes laptop*
The other day I was thinking about Professor Sprout and how she’s a Hufflepuff and is meant to be all cuddly and nice, and then I thought about how she also grew those mandrakes from tiny plant babies, waited until they grew enough self-awareness to form romantic relationships and try and move in together, and then massacred them for potions ingredients.
“I lost my mind trying to understand yours looking for kindness in your madness looking for kindness in this ravaged world and in the end i lost my life too.”
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